119-s1696

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1696 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1696

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
 Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation 
 requiring certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed 
 limiting devices, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 May 8, 2025

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Lee, 
 Mr. Budd, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Crapo) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
 Science, and Transportation

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 A BILL

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
 Administration from issuing a rule or promulgating a regulation 
 requiring certain commercial motor vehicles to be equipped with speed 
 limiting devices, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Deregulating Restrictions on 
Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-wheelers Act'' or the ``DRIVE Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON REQUIRING SPEED LIMITING DEVICES.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of 
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may not issue any rule 
or promulgate any regulation to require a commercial motor vehicle (as 
defined in 

section 390.5 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or a 
successor regulation)) to be equipped with a speed limiting device set 
to a maximum speed.
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